indxbib

- create an inverted index to a bibliographic database

Synopsis

indxbibdatabase-file...

Description

indxbib makes an inverted index to the named database-file (which must reside
within the current directory), typically for use by lookbib(1) and refer(1). A database
contains bibliographic references (or other kinds of information) separated by blank lines.

A bibliographic reference is a set of lines, constituting fields of bibliographic
information. Each field starts on a line beginning with a `%',
followed by a key-letter, then a blank, and finally the contents of the
field, which may continue until the next line starting with `%'.

indxbib is a shell script that calls two programs: /usr/lib/refer/mkey and /usr/lib/refer/inv.
mkey truncates words to 6 characters, and maps upper case to lower case.
It also discards words shorter than 3 characters, words among the
100 most common English words, and numbers (dates) < 1000 or >
2099. These parameters can be changed.

indxbib creates an entry file (with a .ia suffix), a posting file
(.ib), and a tag file (.ic), in the working directory.